For most of my professional photography work, I spend a lot of time working to achieve accurate colors. My goal is normally to produce natural skin tone and “honest” photography, where the photo interest comes from composition, expression, lighting, and other factors. I’m usually not about funky or gimmicky processing.

Well, that’s fine and good, but today I’m hung over and I’m feeling like pushing the boundaries of what I normally do! Sometimes it’s good to just play and have fun and make art. Today’s photos are from my walk about day around San Antonio. I have a few still life photos, and frankly, they aren’t really all that amazing. So I decided to have some fun and do some funky processing on them to make them a little more interesting. Everything that has been done is using the color, exposure, and tone curve sliders in Adobe Lightroom.

I often use the sliders to work with colors and achieve tones and monochromatic themes within images. Usually I do it in a manner where the images look close to what we would see in real life. But not today! In these images I pretty much slammed the sliders left and right, actually trying to achieve grainy artifacts. Why not?! We shouldn’t be afraid to push the limits once and a while, and of course use adjustments in our editing software that we don’t normally use. Cheers, have a good one.